Ironing board attachment



Feb. 15, 1955 P. GERTZ IRONING BOARD ATTACHMENT 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed June 1, 1951 INVENTOR PHIL/P L1. GERTZ 4 ATTORNZ United States Patent IRONING BOARD ATTACHMENT Philip L. Gertz, Brooklyn, N. Y. Application June 1, 1951, Serial No. 229,426 1 Claim. (C1. 248-117.2)

The present invention relates to an ironing board attachment and has for its primary object to avoid the scorching or burning of an ironing board cover or a garment, there- Another object of the present invention is the provision of means to support a sad iron adjacent an ironing board within easy reach of a user of the ironing board and so positioned it will enable a user to lift the iron with but a minimum amount of effort.

A still further object of the present invention is the provision of means to support a sad iron adjacent an ironing board to avoid interference with and possible rumpling of an ironed portion of a garment supported on the ironing board.

The above and other objects may be attained by employing the present invention which embodies among its features a support carried by the under side of an ironing board, a U-shaped arm carried by the support adjacent one edge of the ironing board with the bight portion thereof disposed downwardly and an iron rest carried by the U-shaped arm in spaced relation to the aforesaid edge of the ironing board.

Other features of the present invention include means for detachably coupling the iron rest to the U-shaped arm and an iron supporting platform yieldingly held in the iron rest and lying along an inclined plane for holding a sad iron in said iron rest at an angle to the vertical for easy removal by the user.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of an ironing board showing this attachment in operative position thereon.

Figure 2 is a side view of the ironing board illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a bottom plan view of the ironing board illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 4 is an enlarged sectional view taken substantially on the line 4-4 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is an enlarged sectional view taken substantially on the line 5-5 of Figure 4.

Figure 6 is an enlarged plan view of the sad iron support showing a portion thereof broken away.

Figure is a transverse sectional view taken substantially on the line 77 of Figure 6 and showing in broken lines a sad iron in place thereon, and

Figure 8 is a fragmentary transverse sectional view taken substantially on the line 8-8 of Figure 7.

Referring to the drawings in detail an ironing board 10 is equipped with a conventional folding stand designated generally 12 and secured to the underside of the ironing board 10 adjacent one side and intermediate opposite ends thereof is a bearing bracket 14 having a bore 16 extending therethrough which lies transversely of the ironing board. Formed in the bracket 14 and communicating with the bore 16 therein is a radially extending internally screw threaded opening 18 for the reception of the threaded shank of a thumb screw 20. The end of the thumb screw 20 which is directed toward the bore 16 is formed with an extension or nib 22 for a purpose to be more fully hereinafter described.

Mounted for rotation in the bore 16 of the bracket 14 is a trunnion 24 having formed therein circumferentially spaced recesses 26 and 28 for the reception of the extention or nib 22 of the thumb-screw 20 and carried by the trunnion 24 at the end thereof adjacent the nearest side edge of the ironing board 10 is a perpendicularly extending arm 30. A horizontally extending bar 32 is carried by the arm 30 at the end thereof remote from the trunnion 24 and extends transversely of the ironing board 10 to a point near the edge of said board remote the edge adjacent the bracket 14.

Carried by the bar 32 at the end thereof remote from the arm 30 is one leg 34 of a U-shaped supporting arm designated generally 36. Joined to the leg 34 remote from its junction with the bar 32 via bight portion 38 is the opposite leg 40 of the U-shaped supporting arm 36. Carried by the end of the leg 40 remote from the bight portion 38 and directed toward the ironing board 10 is a horizontal iron rest supporting arm 42. The arm 42 is provided adjacent its end remote from the leg 40 with a squared portion 44 and intermediate its ends with opposed notches 46 the purpose of which will hereinafter appear. The end of the arm 42 which is directed toward the ironing board is spaced therefrom by the bight portion 38 so that a portion of an article of clothing on the ironing board may hang down between the legs 34 and 40 of the U-shaped supporting arm 36.

An iron holder designated generally 70 is demountably attached to the arm 42. This holder comprises a bottom 48 having upstanding side walls 50 and 52 and upstanding end walls 54 which joint opposite ends of the side walls 50 and 52. Formed substantially midway between opposite ends of the side wall 50 and extending therethrough adjacent the bottom wall 48 is an opening 56 for the accommodation of the arm 42. A socket or strap 58 having a rectangular opening 60 extending therethrough is riveted or otherwise secured to the bottom 48 in spaced relation to the side wall 50 and the opening 60 aligns axially with the opening 56 so that when the arm 42 is entered into the holder 70, the fiat faces 44 on the arm will engage the Walls of the opening 60 and hold the holder 70 against rotation about the arm 42. Secured in any suitable manner as by rivets to the side wall 50 on opposite sides of the opening 56 therein are spring tongues 62 which lie along convergent planes as they recede from the wall 50 and terminate at their ends remote from the wall 50 in curved portions 64 which form latches or detents for engaging the walls of the notches 46 and removably holding the iron holder 70 on the arm 42.

Secured to the bottom wall 48 of the holder 70 adjacent the wall 50 thereof are longitudinally spaced compression coiled springs 66 which extend upwardly from the bottom 48 and from yielding supports for a plate 68 forming an iron rest. As illustrated in Figure 7 the edge of the plate 68 remote from that supported on the springs 66 lies on the bottom 48 adjacent the wall 52 so that the plate 68 lies at an angle to the horizontal and its upper edge is yieldingly supported on the springs.

In use the device is attached to an ironing board 10 substantially as shown so that the bar 32 and U-shaped supporting arm 36 lie transversely of the board 10 with the leg 46 and arm 42 lie in spaced relation to the edge of the ironing board remote from the bracket 14. With the parts thus in place, the user may manipulate the thumb screw 20 to withdraw the nib 22 thereof within the threaded opening 18 so that the trunnion 24 is free to rotate in the bore 16. With the ironing board in operative position, the arm 24 is rotated so that the U-shaped supporting arm 36 extends vertically substantially as shown and the thumb screw 28 is then turned to advance the nib 22 into the recess 28 in the trunnion 24, thus locking the parts in the desired position. The holder 70 is then mounted on the supporting arm 36 by entering the arm 42 through the opening 56 and between the detents 64 until the detents engage the Walls of the notches 46 at which time the flat faces 44 of the arm 42 will engage the flat walls of the opening 60. In this way the iron holder 70 will be held against rocking movement on the arm 42. With the holder 70 thus in place an iron may be supported on the plate 68 substantially as shown in Figure 7 and the handle of the iron will be tilted toward the ironing board 10 so that it may easily be grasped by the user of the ironing board. Obviously owing to the supporting of the holder 70 in spaced relation to the ironing board on the U-shaped supporting arm 36 a space is provided for the accommodation of the ironed portion of a garment and nudesirable rumpling or creasing of the garment is avoided.

I wish to have it understood that minor changes in detail and construction of the various parts may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention, the scope of which is set forth in the appended claim.

What is claimed is: An iron rest for attachment to an ironing board comprising a U-shaped member having a long and a short.

vertical arm, said short vertical arm having a right angled outwardly disposed portion With a bent back end portion, said bent back portion forming a second U-shaped member, said long vertical arm having a right angled bent in portion at its upper end facing the said bent portion on the short arm, the ends of said U-shaped portion thereby facing each other; an iron rest adjustably mounted on the inwardly bent portion of the long vertical arm at its side remote vfrom said short vertical arm, said iron rest comprising a rigidly mounted base having four Walls thereon, a movable plate above said base, resilient means between said plate and said base to assist in lifting said iron the end of the inwardly bent portion of the long vertical arm afiixed to the iron rest intermediate said resiliently mounted plate and said base, said plate being References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,018,530 Tiedemann Feb. 27, 1912 1,694,236 Schulthess Dec. 4, 1928 1,696,518 Bowman Dec. 25, 1928 1,994,777 MacKinzie Mar. 19, 1935 2,027,085 Brashears Jan. 7, 1936 2,438,054 Holliday Mar. 16, 1948 FOREIGN PATENTS 174,614 Switzerland of 1935 

